Sporobolus airoides

Family: Poaceae
Common Name: alkali sacaton
Symbol: SPAI
Description: Perennial; bunch grass, not rhizomatous. Culms 35-120(150) cm, stout. Sheaths rounded below, shiny, apices glabrous or sparsely hairy, hairs to 6 mm; ligules 0.1-0.3 mm; blades 10-45cm long, 2-5 mm wide, flat to involute, glabrous abaxially, scabridulous adaxially, margins smooth or scabridulous; flag blades ascending. Panicles 15-45 cm long, 15-25 cm wide, diffuse; primary branches 1.5-13 cm, spreading 30-90- from the rachis.